Author: Pete Galati
Date: 10:59:58 01/14/00
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On January 14, 2000 at 13:15:13, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On January 14, 2000 at 12:09:05, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On January 14, 2000 at 09:25:09, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >> >>>On January 14, 2000 at 09:02:05, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On January 14, 2000 at 06:36:05, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >>>> >>>>>On January 14, 2000 at 06:21:04, Alvaro Polo wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>It is my opinion that Kasparov should play Deep Blue. >>>>> >>>>>This is off track. Kasparov always wanted the rematch, but IBM dismantled Deep >>>>>Blue. Hsu's new machine is not Deep Blue. >>>>> >>>>>Enrique >>>> >>>> >>>>DB Jr is still operational. >>> >>>But I don't think this matters. For the whole world, and this is what I think >>>matters, DB junior is not the IBM Deep Blue that beat Kasparov. Would IBM play >>>DB against Kasparov Junior? >>> >>>Enrique >> >>No... but I'll bet that if you call them and say "Hey, I will buy 8 of your >>SP2's with 256 nodes each, but only if you let me play two games vs the real >>DB hardware" then they would be glad to set it up. Ie "dismantled" is still >>the wrong term. "Mothballed" is better, because it _could_ play a game >>with a few hours notice. > >OK, since we are already discussing this in this same thread (always a pleasure >:) ),let's make it short. To make the re-match IBM's Deep Blue against Garry >Kasparov, a necessary condition is that IBM's Deep Blue and Garry Kasparov will >play. This condition is missing forever. DB Jr or Kasparov Jr won't do. > >Enrique [.... It's rather pointless to bring up Deep Blue Jr. That machine isn't what's being talked about with a match, DB Jr. is just like a demo machine, not to taken serious. The whole Deep Blue, that's what you want to talk about. Pete
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